The next four exercises will help you to keep the muscles in your mouth moving.
This will help to prevent them from getting stiff.
If you don’t use the function, you might lose the function.
Open your mouth as wide as you can. You should feel a good stretch but not any pain.
Hold this position for 5 seconds,
Then relax for a few seconds to give your mouth a break.
Good work. Now let’s try that again.
Open your mouth as wide as you can.
Remember, you should feel a stretch but no pain when you do this exercise.
Hold the position for 5 seconds and relax for a few seconds
to give your mouth a break.
Repeat that 7 to 10 more times.
[pause]
Now rest your mouth. Good work.
Open your mouth as wide as you can.
[pause]
Now rest your mouth.
Open your mouth as wide as you can.
Remember, you should feel a stretch but no pain when you do this exercise.
Hold the position for 5 seconds And relax for a few seconds
to give your mouth a break.
Open your mouth as wide as you can.
Good work.
Stick out your tongue as far as it will go.
Really stretch your tongue, and hold this position for 5 seconds.
Release the position.
Remember that if you’re feeling any dryness in your mouth
you should take a little break to swish and spit with water or your baking soda solution.
Let’s try this one again.
Stick your tongue out as far as it can go
Hold the position for 5 seconds.
Release the position.
Let’s try that a few more times.
Out
[pause]
Release
Remember that if you’re feeling any dryness in your mouth, you should take a little break
To swish and spit with water or your baking soda solution.
Let’s try this one again.
Stick your tongue out as far as it can go
Hold this position for 5 seconds.
And release the position.
Let’s try that a few more times.
Out.
[pause]
And relax.
Out.
[pause]
And relax.
One more time. Out.
And relax. Good work.
Stick your tongue up towards your nose like you’re trying to touch your tongue to your nose.
Don’t worry about actually reaching your nose, just do the best you can.
Hold this position for 5 seconds.
Now move your tongue down towards your chin like you’re trying to touch your tongue to your chin.
Hold your tongue in this position for 5 seconds.
And rest. This exercise can be a little bit tricky
Let’s try it one more time.
Stick your tongue up towards your nose Like you’re trying to touch your tongue
to the tip of your nose. It’s ok if you can’t reach your nose.
Hold your tongue in this position for 5 seconds.
Now move your tongue down towards your chin like you’re trying to touch your tongue to your chin.
And hold your tongue in this position for 5 seconds.
And rest.
Let’s try that a few more times.
Up to your nose
[pause]
And to your chin.
[pause]
And rest.
Up
And down.
Good work. One more time.
Up
And down.
Good job.
Here’s a tip for this exercise: Make sure you take your time
And that you hold each position for a full 5 seconds
To make sure you give your tongue a good stretch.
You will have better results if you do.
Stick the tip of your tongue out of your mouth and move it to the left corner of your mouth.
You don’t have to stick your tongue out very far, just the tip.
Hold your tongue in this position for 5 seconds.
Now move your tongue to the outside right corner of your mouth.
Hold your tongue there for 5 seconds.
Release this position.
Let’s go over that one more time.
Stick the tip of your tongue out of your mouth and move it to the left corner of your mouth.
Hold your tongue in this position for 5 seconds.
Now move your tongue to the right corner of your mouth.
And hold your tongue there for 5 seconds.
Good work. Let’s try again.
Left
Right
Now rest.
And again. Left.
Right.
And rest.
Left.
And right.
Great work.